Re: SAN switches maintenance

You can just power off a switch and the systems will compensate as long as all hosts have active paths through both switches.

If you want to try and avoid the timeouts, re-send of IOs, you can go into the hosts and set the link of the switch that is staying up as the preferred for IO so it isn't using the path to the switch that is going down.

If you have to make changes to both switches, you should wait a few hours / day between reboots to ensure the path to the recently rebooted switch is healthy for all hosts before dropping the other side.